Ashley Roberts | |
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Born | Ashley Allyn Roberts September 14, 1981
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
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Years active | 2001–present |
Musical career | |
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Instrument(s) | Vocals |
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Formerly of | The Pussycat Dolls |
Ashley Allyn Roberts (born September 14, 1981) [1] is an American singer, dancer, and media personality. She is a former member of the pop group The Pussycat Dolls (2003–2010, 2019–2021), who sold over 55 million records worldwide, becoming one of the world's best-selling female groups of all time. [2] [3] [4] Roberts also had a brief career as a solo singer when she released the album Butterfly Effect (2014).
Roberts has presented various television shows, including Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2013–2016), the Emmy-nominated 1st Look (2016–2018), The Real Dirty Dancing UK (2022), and Dance Monsters (2022–present). [5] She has also appeared on British reality television shows, including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2012), Dancing on Ice (2013–2014) which she served as a judge, The Jump (2015), and Strictly Come Dancing (2018).
In 2019, Roberts became the showbiz correspondent for the national Heart Breakfast radio show. Since 2022, she has been a presenter for Heart 00s, a spin-off from the Heart radio network. [6] [7]
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Shadow Mountain High School. She is the daughter of Pat Roberts, the former drummer of the Mamas & the Papas, and Peggy Lorraine, a Pilates instructor. She began dancing at the age of three and singing at eight. Roberts' hair was brunette during her teenage years. [8]
In 2001 Roberts moved to Los Angeles to study modern dance and appeared in various television commercials and music videos such as Counting Crows " Accidentally in Love", Josh Groban's " You Raise Me Up", Jane's Addiction's "True Nature", Aaron Carter's " Oh Aaron" and " Not Too Young, Not Too Old" and Pink's " Trouble". [9] In 2003, Robin Antin saw her work in music videos and asked Roberts to join the Pussycat Dolls, along with Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton, Carmit Bachar, Kimberly Wyatt and Jessica Sutta. [10] The group achieved worldwide success with the singles " Don't Cha", " Stickwitu", " Buttons", and their multi-platinum debut album PCD (2005). During that time, Roberts also starred the dance film Make It Happen. [11] The group's second and final studio album Doll Domination (2008) contains hit singles " When I Grow Up", " I Hate This Part" and " Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)". [12]
Despite their commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict due to the emphasis on Scherzinger and the subordinate treatment of the other members. [13] In February 2010, for these reasons, Roberts, Wyatt, Sutta, and Thornton had announced their departures from The Pussycat Dolls and the group disbanded. [14]
On September 28, 2010, Roberts released a solo promotional single, a cover of Percy Faith's 1959 hit single " A Summer Place". [15] Afterwards, Roberts took a two-year hiatus from her artistic career to follow guru Mata Amritanandamayi on spiritual retreats. [16] In 2012 she signed a record deal with independent label Cherry Red Records and released "Yesterday" as her debut solo single. [17] In November she competed in the British reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, airing on ITV, finishing as runner-up. [18] From 2013 to 2014 Roberts was judge of dance figure skating series Dancing on Ice. [19] In 2013 Roberts stabilized as television presenter, debuting in the variety show Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway from 2013 to 2016. In 2014 Roberts also presented WWE Legends' House. [18]
That year, Roberts signed with Metropolis London and released her debut solo album, Butterfly Effect, on September 1, 2014, only in UK. [20] The album served two singles: "Woman Up" and "Clockwork", which reached number 175 in UK and 18 in UK Indie Charts. [21] [22] In 2016 she left Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and signed with NBC to present the travel and lifestyle program 1st Look, from 2016 to 2018. [18] The work was nominated for Emmy Awards as Best Travel and Adventure Program. [23] In 2018 Roberts competed in BBC dance show Strictly Come Dancing, in the United Kingdom, and finished as a finalist. [24] In 2019, Roberts became the showbiz correspondent of the Heart Breakfast, Heart Radio show hosted by Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden. [25] That following month, she made her West End debut, portraying Dawn, in the musical, Waitress. [26]
On November 29, 2019, The Pussycat Dolls confirmed their comeback and, on February 7, 2020, they released a new single, " React", with a live performance on the finale of The X Factor: Celebrity. [27] [28] [29] They announced a 36-date world tour, but plans were canceled due the worsening situation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the group ended the reunion in 2021. [30]
In 2020 she appeared in Celebrity Gogglebox, a British docu-series about a groups of people watching and reacting to television programming during the week. [26] In 2022 she presentes the British reality show The Real Dirty Dancing UK. [31] Since 2022 she presents the Netflix dance show Dance Monsters and Heart Radio show Heart 00's. [32] [33]
Roberts has launched her first line of lingerie designed for the beach in Sydney, Australia. [34] [35] In 2016, Roberts designed a women's shoe collection for spring/summer 2017 called ALLYN, after her middle name. [36]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | 90210 | Penny | Episode: "Into the Wild" |
Dance Your Ass Off | Guest judge | Episode: "Week 4" | |
2012 | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | Contestant | Series 12 |
2013–2014 | Dancing on Ice | Judge | Series 8– 9 |
2013–2016;2024 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Presenter | |
2014 | WWE Legends' House | Presenter | |
2015 | The Keith Lemon Sketch Show | She-Ra / Caitlyn Jenner / Pink | Episode: "2" |
2015 | The Jump | Contestant | Series 2 |
2016–2018 | 1st Look | Presenter | |
2017 | Let It Shine | Guest judge | Episode: "Semi-final" |
2018 | Strictly Come Dancing | Contestant | Series 16 |
2020 | Celebrity Gogglebox | Commentator | Series 2 |
2022 | The Real Dirty Dancing UK | Presenter | |
2022–present | Dance Monsters | Presenter |
Year | Title | Role |
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2005 | Be Cool | Herself |
2008 | Make It Happen | Brooke |
Year | Title | Roles | Radio |
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2019–2021 | Heart Breakfast | Correspondent | Heart |
2022– present |
Heart 00s | Presenter |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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UK [37] |
UK Indie [38] | ||
Butterfly Effect |
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159 | 36 |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
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UK [21] |
UK Indie [22] |
SCO [39] | ||||||||||||
"Yesterday" [40] | 2012 | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||||||||
"Clockwork" | 2014 | 175 | 18 | 88 | Butterfly Effect | |||||||||
"Woman Up" | — | — | — | |||||||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Album |
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" A Summer Place" [41] | 2010 | Non-album single |
Title | Year | Album |
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"Played" | 2008 | Doll Domination |
Title | Year | Director | Notes |
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"Yesterday" | 2012 | Don Tyler | |
"Clockwork" | 2014 | Ramy Dance | |
"Woman Up" | |||
Guest appearances | |||
" Oh Aaron" | 2001 | — | Aaron Carter's music video |
" Not Too Young, Not Too Old" | |||
"True Nature" | 2003 | Jane's Addiction's music video | |
" You Raise Me Up" | Josh Groban's music video | ||
" Trouble" | Pink's music video | ||
"Accidentally in Love" | 2004 | Counting Crows' music video | |
"Stars in Your Eyes" | 2010 | Her Majesty & The Wolves' music video | |
"2 da Left" | 2011 | Leo Moctezuma's music video | |
"Dirrty Up" | 2012 | Bobby Newberry's music video | |
"Toxic Love" | |||
"Goodbye" | 2015 | Melody Thornton's music video |
Year | Title | Role |
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2013–2015 | Ant & Dec's Takeaway on Tour | "Ant vs. Dec" segment mediator |
2019 | Waitress | Dawn |
Year | Award | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
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Grammy Awards | " Stickwitu" | Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals | Nominated | ||
Daytime Emmy Awards | 1st Look | Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program [a] | Nominated |